I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow

Well now, here's the end of it. The summer is practically over this August Friday. Gone are my summer adventures, wasting time doing things on the computer, babysitting some great kids, trying to cook new foods, and me contemplating my summer days. I wish summer could last forever. It won't. I know. With all things considered, I do hope to continue this fun next summer: babysitting, adventuring, playing, cooking, and so much more.

So I hope all of you readers, if there are any, my friends and everyone else who may have come along this blog, I hope you stick around and continue this adventure with me.
In the words of Tennyson in Ulysses and
part of which was spoken by Frasier saying "Goodnight Seattle":

"... Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
...

"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now the strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow..

The summer's gone and all the roses falling..

Now as I see the sun setting upon the trees and in front of a yielding sky, I feel the slight wind upon my cheek, blowing across it in such a way as to tell me that the brown and golden leaves fall someday ushering the rain and snow we call winter.

This last week, I said some goodbyes and so-longs to friends and people I know who have helped me and have been there as a supporting presence all these years. One day I hope to catch up with them and to tell them how I am doing, ask them how they are, and to thank them for their supportive influence in my life..

Well now, the summer is almost gone and I can see the petals of my mother's flowers falling. Yet another spring they'll grow again. I'll go off on this new adventure, and I do hope you'll stay bide.

And so I face the final curtain..

It is a normal Pacific Northwest afternoon. The sky has the streaks of sun shining through though the sun itself is barely covering itself in the grey clouds to suppress any complete happiness or sadness in any young child.

As high school comes to a start for me and my forever classmates and colleagues, I wonder if I truly am prepared for this new adventure. And as I look and wonder at the past and the present, and my present circumstances, I feel as though time itself is coming to an end.
It is not. I know this. Yet I will continue this journey, this adventure, as a new era in my life.

From the words of Mary Schmich, I will wear sunscreen.

Now do I listen to the words printed on a parchment pasted onto a block of wood hanging in my bathroom.. It begins, "GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE & HASTE, & REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE.." continuing on, "Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. .." And Max Ehrmann ended this poem, "Desiderata" saying to "Be careful. Strive to be happy."

And now..

(*sound of blowing through his mouth as if he were tired and through with something*)
As this lovely, enchanting, dull, endearing, animating, and epitomic summer draws to its unfortunate end, I have regrets (yet too few to mention) in addition to satisfaction and contentment. I wonder if I have accordingly spent this summer.

5:43 PM
Alas after much thought, I think I have. I have traveled down Interstate-5 to almost its end and seen most of the grand beauty of California; I have read and pictured the moving events in a county called Maycomb in Alabama, seeing a brother and sister grow, and an innocent black man being served injustice; I have seen great art in Seattle that made me think new and fresh thoughts of the world and of thoughts itself; I learned to make great culinary dishes pleasing to the palate; I have put on a paper helmet, donned a cardboard shield of a red lion emblazoned on to aluminum foil, and with newspaper swords I fought great fiery dragons; so here's to life. (As sung by the fabulous Shirley Horn-) ..as long as I am still in the game, I want to play -for laughs, for life, for love.

Wake Me Up When August Ends

Hey I've all of a sudden decided to make the most of my summer. I will not be hanging around this computer not much more. School starts at the end of August... so wake me up when it ends!!!

Summer on Flickr



"The summer wind came blowing in
from across the sea.
It lingered there to touch your hair
and walk with me.
All summer long we sang a song
and then we strolled that golden sand.
Two sweethearts and the summer wind.

Like painted kites, those days and nights,
they went flying by.
The world was new beneath the blue umbrella sky.
Then softer than, a piper man
one day it called to you.
And I lost you, to the summer wind.

The autumn wind
and the winter wind have come and gone.
And still the days, those lonely days
go on and on.
And guess who sighs his lullabies
through nights that never end..
My fickle friend, the summer wind."

Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind"

I, Done

I was watching "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" this morning; it's something I've been doing during this summer. Anyways, it was the last two episodes of the show and also one of the saddest. I'm serious, it almost made me cry as I saw all of the characters saying goodbye to each other as Uncle Phil and Aunt Vivian were selling the house, Hilary and Ashley moving off to New York to do a talk show and go to the school of arts, respectively, Carlton boarding at Princeton, and Will finishing college at ULA. With each goodbye, the character of each person was shown in how they were like during the entire running of the series. Everyone said goodbye to "Will", and Will said goodbye to "Uncle Phil", "Aunt Viv", "Ash", "Hil", "C", "G", and "Nicky".
One more month of the summer is still here for me. As I and my colleagues begin a new era in our lives, I hope that all of you who have ever read my blog will stick around and find out how things turn out.

Computer Troubles

Once again my computer has ceased to properly work as the hard drive has most likely crashed. Everything will be fixed within about a week. At the moment I am using a computer in my local library. (Thanks).
Anyways, it's halfway through the summer and I have about one more month of carefree days until school starts and I'll begin a new adventure in high school. We'll talk about this more later.
Rupert Murdoch has bought the Wall Street Journal and I don't think I feel happy about this. The credibility and journalistic integrity of one of our nation's oldest newspapers is at stake. I'm a bit surprised at the Bancroft family for doing this but I'm sure they've thought it through. I'd read TVNewser for more on this.
So I hope you have a good summer and I hope to be back soon.

Christ Montez, "The More I See You".

Once again for old time's sake

Okay,

"Don't walk, run to Crosswire Motors!"

Muffy sure likes saying Don't walk, run to Crosswire Motors.

Blogger Promotion Troubles

As I have been blogging for a couple of monthes now, I find it difficult to find my audience.
Google search certain phrases in my blog often do not come up and I see this depressing.
Anyways, I hope that someone will come upon this blog if they search for certain phrases not found anywhere on the Internet, as far as I know. Here's one phrase from the popular PBS Kids show (one of my favorites), Arthur.;

"Don't walk, run to Crosswire Motors!"

This phrase, the promotional slogan of Ed Crosswire, Muffy Crosswire's dad, is a significant display of the salesmanship of the Crosswire business and their (I think it is a-) monopoly of the Elwood City used car sales business. And as the people of Elwood City run to Crosswire Motors, Mr. Crosswire is there to talk them into buying cars ranging from a junker with no tires to a bright red convertible.
A display of the type of people of Elwood City, a regular city we can familiarize with.

Later..

Scheduled TiRS Test

This is Ryan's Spot
This is Ryan's Spot Blog

Don't walk, run to Crosswire Motors

This is Ryan's Spot is now fully live online right now.

New Title Banner for TiRS

For this blog, I have made a new image to be used as the banner title. I like it and I hope you will as well. In my opinion it makes the entire page look cleaner, crisper, more concise, and modern instead of the original dull banner color and font. Now maybe I should do something about the 'Red Polka Dots'...

Original Page Banner


Updated Page Banner

Later...

So about this series

Maygan said people were getting tired of reading my political blogs so she decided to ramble about something I'm not sure I understand. Anyways...
About that special series I was telling you readers (if there are any) about. It's unofficially but apparantly on a current hiatus; it's on hold 'til some other time.

Boring Sunday

For the first time in a long time, I have been bored on a Sunday. *sigh* Sundays in Seattle. Usually on Sundays I have a lot of work to do, but not today. The sun is shining down on Seattle and the grass and trees are responding by slightly waving around. The sky is mostly cloudy but you can tell there is blue behind it. Then there's the buzzing sound of a lawn mower. I haven't heard that sweet buzzing sound in a long time. Someone is always mowing their lawn whenever I'm bored, as if a lawn mower and my boredome were adherent.

It's also opening day for the Mariners tomorrow.

Anyways, I'm planning on starting something new here. A special series involving an important issue to schoolkids in private and public schools across the nation will begin this week. More later...

Not Everyday

If any of you have been reading this blog, you would have noticed that there have been no new posts in the last couple of days. Now the blog's subtitle is "Daily life, musings, and other possibly boring things ...." It is no guarantee that I or my colleagues will post everyday but at least I will try to. As for my colleagues, they can post irregularly.

Anyways, a lot of things have been going through my mind.

Have you ever realized that if you collected all the lint that goes through your dryer for a long period of time, you could sew it all together and make a sweater? I just realized that after cleaning out the dryer's lint compartment and I felt the texture and feeling of the lint.

Later...

yes this is maygan.

Unlike Ryan I am not carefully planning this.
Meaning = I am not weird.

So I will start this post out by telling you who Ryan is. So here is a list of what he is:
&& a nerd
&& a dork
&& smart
&& nice
&& annoying
&& shy
&& a teenager
So if you put these all together you actually get a good combo. =/
Amazing right?.............I thought so...

Yes Ryan. I edited the post to make YOU happy. Jeez. Freak out much?
I think I have done enough rambling now so you should go to my blog now and leave me some comments. If you do I will love you. =)
Well except for those perverts, psycho's, and whatnot out there. Don't worry I just hate them. <33

The First Inaugural Post

Okay.
Well. Today is the first full day of spring in Washington and it's also the first full post of this blog.
Welcome to my spot. Here you can read the daily life, musings, and other possibly boring things from a kid, that being yours truly.
My name is Ryan. That is all I'm giving you.
Sorry idiots, pedophiles, abductors, and other idiots. (I'm not actually sorry.) I have carefully considered what I'll tell my audience and I will tell them enough so they can understand and relate to what I am talking about.
Anyways.
So here's to this new blog.
; ) Yours truly